Post-Mortem

Sorry, I've been out of commission today with a bad stomach virus or some bad wings i ate last night. Then again, my naseaousness could stem from that wretched Eagles performance last night.

A couple of thoughts before I get to my friend's perspective.
1) As bad as things looked last night, it is still a long season. This team is still capable of getting to 10-6.
2) McNabb is clearly not 100%. I would guesstimate at about 60-75%. Given that, it is sadistic for Andy Reid to call so many passing plays. It hearkens back to McNabb's sports hernia and bruised sternum when they called 50 pass plays in games the Eagles were winning.
3) Given the number of pass plays called, and the lack of offensive rythym, i'm guessing that Reid has recalled the play calling from Morhninweg. That's too bad, though the results speak for themselves.
4) Anyone remember the Eagles-Redskins game at FedEx two years ago? That was the game TO was suspended from and McNabb had the sports hernia. The last two minutes of last night's game reminded me of that game. The Eagles driving for a tying score, even down to the direction the team was driving as viewed on TV. And like that game, the Eagles came up short (actually, as i recall Arrington intercepted McNabb in that game in Washington).
5) Taylor and Landry are big hitters and I think Landry will be a big star in this league.
6) Speaking of Taylor, shouldn't he have been called for spearing when he drove the crown of his helmet into B. Westbrook's back as Westbrook was running out of bounds in one of the Eagles last drives?
7) Jason Campbell looked like the real deal last night. Cooley should have made a couple of catches, though he overthrew Moss on what would have been the game clincher.
8) Then again, if the Eagles had actually made TDs instead of FGs last night, they would have won - even with the poor performance.
9) Apparently we've returned to an offense where our WRs can't get separation. but the stranger part is the total lack of rushing options beyond Westbrook. And why was Tony Hunt inactivated?

Now on to an email from my angry friend PK:

48-17

In case anyone's wondering, that's the play-calling breakdown from the game tonight: Donovan threw 46 passes, plus he ran 2 plays in which a pass was called and he scrambled for runs, and they ran the ball just 17 times to westbrook and ran it to no one else at all. Period. That's 73% of the plays called for passes.

Oh shoot, this doesn't account for the 3 or 4 sacks, so it's actually more than 50 pass plays to 17 running plays, so it's at least 75% of all plays were called as pass plays. So much for last year's Marty Offense. The Mad Scientist Andy is back in charge.

Anyone who wants to know why we lost tonight, it's that simple. Andy Reid continues to wreak havoc on this organization. It's insanity. He is a madman during these games, it is some sort of psychotic reaction to losing the Super Bowl after he called more than 60 pass plays and took a lot of heat for it. It's nuts, it's crazy. It's bizarre.

The other reason, of course, why we lost is because Andy and management simply decided that the Thrash-Pinkston model of receivers, from all those painful days of yesteryear, was a good enough idea to go back to; man, somehow Reggie Brown has simply regressed himself into Pinkston.

No, the season's not over, this division is so unbelievably god awful that it's not over. But any thoughts that this is a team that is capable of winning the Super Bowl -- probably done. Offensively they look like the early '03 offense, which simply sputtered around doing absolute crap till November, but back then we also had a 3-headed monster power running game that, collectively, ran the ball 340 times for 1,700 yards and something like 18 TDs.

There is no running game this year to fall back on like there was in '03.

Sometimes, one of the amazing things I've actually come to realize over the last few years, the fans really are as smart or smarter than management, that management doesn't really know a whole lot more about the game than a fan who really does pay attention.